Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe
The study assessed the loss of Gweru’s urban green spaces using geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques aided by observations for ground truthing and interviews. Satellite images for 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2019, were used to come up with a land use/land cover map. Arcmap 10....
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| description | The study assessed the loss of Gweru’s urban green spaces using geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques aided by observations for ground truthing and interviews. Satellite images for 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2019, were used to come up with a land use/land cover map. Arcmap 10.5 was used to process the images, with supervised classification adopted to determine loss of green spaces. Results show that there was decrease of green spaces from 2000 to 2019. Gweru City Council to keep track of the changes that occur since capturing them will assist in coming up with a map inventory. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-47882022-06-27T13:49:06Z Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe Matsa, Mark Musasa, Tatenda Mupepi, Oshneck Geographic information systems Green spaces Remote sensing Zimbabwe The study assessed the loss of Gweru’s urban green spaces using geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques aided by observations for ground truthing and interviews. Satellite images for 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2019, were used to come up with a land use/land cover map. Arcmap 10.5 was used to process the images, with supervised classification adopted to determine loss of green spaces. Results show that there was decrease of green spaces from 2000 to 2019. Gweru City Council to keep track of the changes that occur since capturing them will assist in coming up with a map inventory. 2022-04-01T09:25:25Z 2022-04-01T09:25:25Z 2021 Article 1937-6812 2163-2642 https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1930077 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4788 en African Geographical Review; open Routledge |
| spellingShingle | Geographic information systems Green spaces Remote sensing Zimbabwe Matsa, Mark Musasa, Tatenda Mupepi, Oshneck Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe |
| title | Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe |
| title_full | Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe |
| title_fullStr | Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe |
| title_short | Loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of Gweru city, Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | loss of urban green spaces due to increased land use/ cover changes between 2000-2019: the case of gweru city, zimbabwe |
| topic | Geographic information systems Green spaces Remote sensing Zimbabwe |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1930077 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/4788 |
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